Erogenius
Erogenius
Genres: ambient, electronic, downtempo, experimental, serbian
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About Erogenius
The intriguing Belgrade duo consisiting of Dušan Godevac and Predrag Nedić, after being passively present at Belgrade music scene a number of years, decided to go public with their material. They bring us a project EROGENIUS, and through it they succeeded in bringing their experience and creative energy to beautiful sound passages and rich production. The material offered to us is basically electronic music which experiments with all of it's famous forms, but mostly stays in the field of ethno motives and creating the ambient. In any case, it's the music written to be explored by people who know music and it's hidden secrets. It was listed as one of 5 top albums in 2002 by a large number of critics. In opinion of many journalists from foreign magazines this is one of the most important and most original projects coming from "post-Milošević Serbia" (The Boston newspapers). The boys are currently working on music for an american-produced documentary. Taken from: http://www.ammonite.co.rs/ Predrag Nedić is a recording artist better known as PNDC, also a member of keep away from heat. Sound description from http://www.myspace.com/erogenius: ... Imagine the music that the audience of the cult movie Bladerunner cannot hear but to which Harrison Ford is most likely listening in his vehicle while he's chasing after androids down the streets of futuristic L.A.. That would come closest to describe the sound found on Belgrade's erogenius (lowercase 'e') debut album Send and Receive. Ten tracks (plus one hidden track at the very end of the CD – a real cherry on the top for the fans) floating in electro-experimental waters ( when I say electro, forget about techno surrogates and recall the works of Czukay&Sylvian, Eno&Byrne, Laswell&Material, Kraftwerk+kraut rock, Liquid Sky, etc. ), are a real surprise ( read: serbprise ) for the domestic music scene so predictable and monotonous that one would rather skip releases that bear a logo of any domestic label. Erogenius's music balances skillfully on a tightrope of creation and destruction while connecting them in one inseparable whole, like in a whiplash suggested in the title (Send and Receive), where one factor is always conditioned by another. Their music is about symbiosis not disintegration, that is, in their affinity towards experimenting, erogenius was never caught in a trap of neglecting melodies and harmonies for the mere sake of experimenting, a trap that's an Achilles' heel to many bands of similar musical approach. On the contrary, disharmonious tones, rustle and squeaking sounds, strong electric rhythms, etc. are an excellent background to melancholic sounds of guitars, vocals and what not. A plethora of ethno elements, ( ranging anywhere from traditional sounds and vocals all the way to Near East, tribal music etc. emphasized in tracks Melem, Re-melem, Neven Vene, Ceylan, etc. ), depict a mood of sensibility born in centuries of progress and resurrected in the era of electronic and global culture. Opposed at moments to the global cultural picture, are more aggressive electro-ambiental tones of tracks like Send and Receive and When you tend to be too high it's so exciting when you fall, in a fashion I already mentioned in the beginning of the text. All in all, Send and Receive is an exciting album one can listen to with the same kind of excitement from the beginning to the end. Even if that's not the case, this work is worth mentioning for its solitary effort in escaping clichés imposed partially by untalented local 'giants,' and partially by an uneducated public clinging to already tested formulas, as well as by kitsch-adoring mediocrity who dangerously threaten to jeopardize the little quality we got left. Obviously, erogenius's music fortunately escapes all these categories. The advice is short and clear – OPEN YOUR MIND AND SEND AND RECEIVE!
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